Viewers picketed an anchor changeSourced
A station replaced its news anchors. Viewers showed up to protest.
Florida TV station WPEC fired Reg Miller and moved Laurel Sauer to weekends in 1988. Viewers responded with pickets, and ratings fell sharply. One of the new anchors was demoted eight months later.
For viewers, the familiar faces mattered.
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